Sandin v. Conner, No. 93-1911 (U.S. Supreme Court) (515 U.S. 472; 115 S.Ct. 2293) (June 19, 1995) (Justice Rehnquist)
Here the Court addressed segregative confinement of a prisoner (in this case for 30 days) and it held that such confinement implicates a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause only if it "imposes atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison …
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